The special Puzzles & Games issue of the magazine (volume 30, number 1) has just gone out to subscribers. It’s got copious details about riddles and puzzles and people. And more. Lotsa stuff that makes people LAUGH, then THINK. The magazine is in PDF format. You can buy a copy, or buy a subscription.
Slime moulds (Physarum polycephalum for example) are quite dexterous when it comes to solving complex 2-D puzzles – their skills having been documented in research which led to the double Ig Nobel prizes (2008 & 2010) awarded to Toshiyuki Nakagaki [full details via here]. Now a new study performed by Alice Dimonte and Victor Erokhin […]
What happens when a 747 collides with a mallard duck? That’s one of the puzzles in the book Professor Povey’s Puzzling Problems. I have not yet read the book, but the promotional video (which you see here) is possibly perfect: Professor Povey practices from a perch, and teaches tutorials, at Oxford University. Fluid dynamics is his game […]
Jin Park writes [AIR 16:2]: Can anyone help me identify the disgruntled children in this photograph? This is a science puzzle, and I want to know the answer. My professor when I was living in the United States gave me this as a sort of humorous scientific historical gift. He was that kind of professor. […]
